Dukan Diet Restart -- Cruise Week 6 Friday

Day 44
Weight: 140lb (63.64kg, 10st)
Loss: .5 lb
Total lost: 7.5lb
Total lost since 3/2011: 18lb (8.18kg, 1.29st)
Milestone:  at 140lb/10st, and lost 8kg (again)

Too bad I'm going to have a cheat day today!  I'll try to keep the calories within limits, but I'm going to have a donut, and pizza this evening.  I am taking all my 4HB supplements today to minimize the damage. Usually I don't remember to take them 4x a day, I only take them 1 or 2x.

I'm getting ready for bed, and am terribly bloated.  Just for fun, I did some measurements, and my underbust is 1.5" bigger, and my waist is 2" bigger from all this air.  It's so uncomfortable! The scale is going to be scary tomorrow morning.

Water:  106oz;  caffeinated tea: 4 mugs

Colonix & Paranil
AGG
1.25 e.w. protein powder
Before lunch (11:45)
AGG
1 minute of  wall pushups
Grapefruit juice -- I forgot to drink it before, I drank it while I was eating the chicken and veggies

Lunch:
Chicken Francese (breading bad)
Baby roasted veggies (good)
Chocolate covered donut w/sprinkles (my favorite!)

Post lunch (1:30pm)
20 minutes walk
Almonds
10 Starburst

Before dinner I had a bunch of prunes
Dinner:
AGG
Walked up two flights of stairs

Pizza
A cup of coke
A small glass of wine
90 minutes later I did 20 air squats

3 pieces of Russian cream fudge
Bedtime: PAG

Dukan Diet Restart -- Cruise Week 2 Thursday

Day 15

Weight: 145lb (65.91kg, 10.36st)
Gain: 2.5lb!
I'm going to skip the other stuff, as this number will come down in the next few days.

Well, I forgot to take some of the 4HB supplements, but I did do the air squats/wall pushups and drank lemonade before dinner.  Today was a PP day.  I did my P90X workout today.  I felt good at the start, but it was a struggle by the end.  Next week, I'll try to do different PP days, Tues-Wed?

Oat bran
1.25 e.w. protein powder
Grilled chicken breast
Goat yogurt
Almonds
Post-workout snack: goat yogurt
Chicken breast strips w/curry goat yogurt sauce

Dukan Diet -- Cruizilization Phase Week 25 Wednesday

Day 169 (August 17, 2011)

Weight: 138.25lb, lost .5lb (62.84kg, 9.88st)
Total lost: 19.75lb, 8.98kg, 1.41st
Milestone: Under 63kg.  Lowest weight since 2004!
 
Under 139 still.  Back to PV w/rye round & margarine.  I also had a week's rest from my 4HB supplements (you're supposed to take a rest week every 8 weeks), so back to Garlic, ALA and de-caffeinated Green Tea extract.  My goal is still 135, but I might go to a few lb further, not below 130 though.

1.25 e.w. protein powder
Chicken w/salsa
Yogurt
Almonds
more yogurt
3 carrots
Manchego cheese
Rye round w/margarine

Diet on Vacation

I enjoyed myself.  I ate 100% rye bread, potatoes, dessert, lots of fresh strawberries, salmon, potatoes.  I ate wheat, mostly in the form of desserts, and of course dairy, and wine almost every day.  I puffed up, but I still only expanded from a size 2 ON capris/shorts to size 4.  The 4s were a little snug by the time I left.  About day 18, my stomach rebelled, and I had a protein-only day.  I had to give my system a rest from the wheat and dairy, and rushing up a path to a latrine isn't fun when you're in an emergency situation!  Well, it probably isn't that much farther than the WC at the office, but still.  I also continued to take the supplements Tim Ferris suggests in his 4-Hour Body diet. Since we were on an island, I swam every day.  I wasn't doing laps or anything, it's a lake, but I burned a few calories every time. I also rowed to 20m and 20 back to the island 3 times, so that was a good amount of cardio.  There's no way to really walk 20m unless I pace up and down the path 5x.  Whatever I did seemed to work, so I'm not complaining.

CHEAT DAY!

Tim Ferriss' 4-Hour Body follows a PV style meal plan for 6 days a week, with a cheat meal/day, really a binge on day 7.  He also includes a host of things that help minimize/eliminate any damage.  Here's what happened today:

Day 109 (June 18, 2011)

Weight, 141.5, gained 1lb

First, before breakfast:

Alpha-Lipoic Acid (ALA) ("ALA helps you store the carbohydrates you eat in muscle or in your liver as opposed to in fat"-4HB)

Allicin 6000 Garlic 650mg (has "the ability to inhibit fat regain" 4HB)

Ate a protein breakfast:
1.25 whey powder (I am on dairy, so I had some of the $37 mistake can of whey I bought instead of egg white powder 2 weeks ago) (137.5 cal)
Colonix

Swim 10min.  I wore a bikini, size small bottoms, and top size 30E(?).  Felt great!

Before lunch:

Alpha-Lipoic Acid (ALA) ("ALA helps you store the carbohydrates you eat in muscle or in your liver as oppposed to in fat"-4HB)
Allicin 6000 Garlic 650mg (has "the ability to inhibit fat regain" 4HB)

Lunch at 1:00pm:
Hamburger w/onions (350 cal?)
Curly fries (500 cal?)
Beverage (25cal) w/lemon -- lemon lowers glycemic response.  OK, it's supposed to be fresh, but I'll have fresh later today.

Swim about 10min, 90min after lunch.  I didn't feel like I was bloated from yesterday, or the hamburger bun or curly fries.  Yay!
At 2:30pm, 1 small scoop of mint chip ice cream (160 cal)

Snack at the LIRR station going home 3:30pm was a new melted Caramel Milky Way Bar (250 cal)

From 4:45pm-5:45pm:
A vanilla coke (20oz) (260 cal)
1 York peppermint patty (140 cal)
7 Samoa cookies (LOOVE THESE) (490cal)
1 Lemon Girl Scout cookie (don't like it) (40cal)
1 Thin Mint Girl Scout cookie (also not a fan) (55cal)

2x Target mozzarella string cheese (120cal)

6:30pm:
1 bottle of Mexican Coke (150cal)
1 bag of pretzels (275cal)

Alpha-Lipoic Acid (ALA) ("ALA helps you store the carbohydrates you eat in muscle or in your liver as oppposed to in fat"-4HB)
Allicin 6000 Garlic 650mg (has "the ability to inhibit fat regain" 4HB)

9:00pm
1 slice of real NY pizza (heavenly!) (350 cal)
1 can of coke (140 cal)

20min walk home, pushing full shopping cart up hill

10:00pm
1 6oz glass of "lemonade" (1 lemon squeezed, water, stevia)
Entenmann's crumb donut (250cal)
Entenmann's old fashioned donut (230cal)
2x Thomas' English muffin (240cal total)
w/margarine.

OK, I'm stuffed!  Let's see, I had at least 137.5+875+160+250+995+120+490+425+800=4,252.5 calories!!!!  I don't think I'm going to have any cravings before my vacation in 2 weeks!

Before I go to bed, at around 11:30, I still have to do 90sec of air squats, and another dose of ALA and Garlic.  Fascinated to see what the scale shows in a few days!

Dukan Diet -- Cruise Week 8 Sunday & Easter "binge"

Day 54 (April 24, 2011)
Weight: 143.75lb, gained .75

Well, it wasn't much of a binge.  Here's what I had/did, utilizing Tim Ferriss' 4-Hour Body (4HB) tips:

1.25 scoop e.w. protein powder
Garlic extract pill -- "inhibits fat regain" (4HB)
Colonix -- insoluble fiber
Grapefruit juice (1 cup?) has a "glucose-lowering effect", so it seems to inhibit fat gain, but also prevents fat loss, so not good when you're trying to lose... (4HB)
Tea -- caffeine promotes a quick trip through the digestive tract (4HB)

THE BINGE -11:45-12:15
I walked to the subway, so that was more than 90 seconds of pre-binge exercise at 11:30 (4HB)
about 50 jelly beans -- I had 3 different kinds, so I had to try 2-3 of each color of each bag
1 starburst -- selected because it had fat, which evidently helps decrease sugar overload (4HB)
1/2 snack bag of almonds
Maybe 5 corn chips, 2 scoops into guacamole
90 minutes after I ate the jellybeans, I did 90 seconds of squats and wall pushups at 1:15(4HB)
So basically I had maybe 500 calories of jellybeans...

Lunch at 2PM was roast beef, salad, green beans, and 1 small meringue. That's it!  Dinner so far is chicken breast w/salsa.  I did not have a sugar crash, so far so good. I'll have some more veggies, and some yogurt, and some cheese.  We'll see what the scale shows tomorrow!